- Supt. Burk: I don't know why you social reformers always want to play detective to prove your theories.
- James Rankin: Because you detectives always leave such gaps on your investigations.
- Edward Styles: But I never knew Martha Stuart! I'm innocent. You can't hang me for the murder of Martha Stuart!
- Supt. Burk: I've been back over the records, and given you at least a dozen cases -- why on Earth choose this one?
- James Rankin: It's the one clear case that'll prove my point! If Styles had had the money to buy an adequate defense, he never would have hanged.
- Barbara Rankin: How much longer are are these investigations going on?
- James Rankin: Oh, I'm afraid the end isn't quite in sight, Barbara.
- Barbara Rankin: But it's all past. That man was dead and buried 20 years ago. Let him rest.
- James Rankin: I know I can't bring Styles back from the dead, but one could force a change in the legal system so that a poor man would have a lawyer to defend him. Styles was a typical case, and there'll be plenty of others...
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